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Assignment: Globalization Based on the Documentary Film Afghan Star Essay
The goal of your first Think Piece assignment is to analyze and evaluate the content of the documentary film Afghan Star using one or more of the written texts.
The primary focus of your paper should be the application of important terms and concepts [with cited quotations] taken from one [or two, at most] of the following articles, assigned during the first half of our semester:
1) "What Is Globalization?" by Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White
2) "History" [Ch. 2] by Shawn Smallman and Kimberly Brown
3) "While I Was Sleeping" [excerpt] by Thomas Friedman
4) "Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept" by Leo Marx
5) Technology Matters [Ch. 1] by David Nye
6) Technology Matters [Ch. 2] by David Nye
7) "Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition" by David Harvey
8) "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" by Arjun Appadurai
9) Power over Peoples [Ch. 5] by Daniel Headrick
10) Power over Peoples [Ch. 7] by Daniel Headrick
11) "Railroad Space and Railroad Time" by Walter Schivelbusch
Content:
You can write an essay that addresses one or more of the following general prompts:
1) How does one or more of the readings listed above help you understand the nature, problems, risks, or advantages that various types of technology pose in the world of the film?
2) How does one or more of the readings listed above help you understand the nature, problems, risks, or opportunities for globalization, global connection, or even glocalization, as they are represented in the film?
3) How central are capitalism, postmodernism, or certain perceptions and experiences of time or space [as flattened, compressed, or annihilated] to the matters that the film explores?
4) In what way does the film demonstrate various "flows" or "scapes", as Appadurai theorizes them, and what are their impacts?
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